Reddit is much harder to clone communities because you can’t take the url and there’s no on-site function to meaningfully advertise. Because of the fediverse being defederated, you can spin up an alternative and advertise it much easier on here.
I think most people are interested in helping the fediverse grow and fragmentation here is a good thing. Also subscriber count doesn’t always mean activity and engagement.
You don’t need one. Just make a new community without that mod.
Learning from Reddit, creating new community and attracting users to it is super hard. It almost would never work in practice.
Reddit is much harder to clone communities because you can’t take the url and there’s no on-site function to meaningfully advertise. Because of the fediverse being defederated, you can spin up an alternative and advertise it much easier on here.
I think most people are interested in helping the fediverse grow and fragmentation here is a good thing. Also subscriber count doesn’t always mean activity and engagement.